Modular Versus Stick-built

[gregb]

Amazon recently invested in this company:

https://www.plantprefab.com/

 

[Deleted member 150397]

There are more than one Modular manufacturer in this state that will build to your design (limited only by shipping requirements). There are also 3000 sf modular two story and panalized two stories in this area. I find no price difference between a good quality modular and a spec home in this area.

I bet you would put Mercedes Benz decals on your hyundai and call it custom.....any form of manufactured is NOT the same as a custom stick built....period. I adjust for quality unless it's an older house. Market participants do not treat the two the same. 99% of manufactured housing uses the cheapest materials possible and it shows.....

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Market participants do not treat the two the same.

I want to see the appraiser that can tell the difference in the two I posted above and an on site stick built home. Modulars are not always glorified mobile homes or Jim Walters specials. Many of these newer ones take your plans, computer scan it, and build accordingly, then you put it together like Lego pieces.

 

[Deleted member 128537]

My prediction is that as labor becomes more difficult to obtain for construction many large builders are going to use more efficient means and seek to automize as much as possible. The only way that can be done is through factory built homes right now. The fact is that cars are not hand made, but are built along assembly lines where quality can be controlled and time can be shortened. With an ever increasing labor shortage in the trades my guess is something similar will eventually happen with housing. We will vew a factory built home just like we view factory built cars: normal.

 

[Deleted member 150397]

I want to see the appraiser that can tell the difference in the two I posted above and an on site stick built home. Modulars are not always glorified mobile homes or Jim Walters specials. Many of these newer ones take your plans, computer scan it, and build accordingly, then you put it together like Lego pieces.

 

[Deleted member 150397]

Let me crawl around the place and I will tell you. Just walk the floor and anyone who has built knows the difference in something fastened in place vs moved..."creaks".. subtle differneces realized by people who have built houses or have knowingly walked through 100s of homes. Those 3 pictures and your question are why exterior or no inspection appraisals are an inferior product in the hands of an educated appraiser...ski resort trophy homes have stick framing and concrete foundations.....what's the difference??? This is one of those "if you have to ask you'll never know"

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

@EconEverything said, "Let me crawl around the place and I will tell you."

This I want to see on ones like I showed.

 

[Ariba]

I want to see the appraiser that can tell the difference in the two I posted above and an on site stick built home. Modulars are not always glorified mobile homes or Jim Walters specials. Many of these newer ones take your plans, computer scan it, and build accordingly, then you put it together like Lego pieces.

From the street, no appraiser could tell. This makes selection comparables so tricky. However, any competent appraiser should be able to tell from an interior inspection.

Side note: why are most timber roof trusses prefabricated in a factory? Could it be quality control?

 

[TRESinc]

I want to see the appraiser that can tell the difference in the two I posted above and an on site stick built home.

photos mean nothing. i have owned several 10-footer cars that would look absolutely perfect in a photo but once someone familiar with it (i.e.a house and an appraiser) took a good luck distinguishing would be relatively easy.

 

[Ariba]

photos mean nothing.

Thanks. Great time saver. I'll put that quote in my report from now on/ LOL